Consumption of Roundwood Raw Materials

At the close of year 2011, the following volumes of raw materials were stockpiled in Sweden:

• 3.0 million m³f ub coniferous sawlogs
• 4.5 million m³f ub pulpwood
• 0.8 million m³f ub chips

During 2010 the consumption of roundwood by the forest products industry was 69.9
million m³f ub, of which 40 % was Scots pine, 50 % Norway spruce, 8 % birch and 2 % other broad-leaved species.

The forest products industry’s consumption of wood fibre was 81.0 million m³f ub during 2010. Of that amount:
 

• the pulp and paper industry consumed 45.4 million m³f ub
• sawmills consumed 34.5 million m³f ub (and generated 10.4 million m³f ub of by-products for use in the pulp and wood-panel industries)
• the wood-panel industry consumed 0.8 million m³f ub.